Frankie’s walks used to be quite random, but they have settled into a route that he doesn’t always follow but lately his path has been pretty consistent. I should also not that when I first started walking him at our current home, we would walk well beyond the boundaries of the map below but now we usually stay inside the borders.

We leave our house from the front door at the upper left and walk counterclockwise until we return through the back door.

Frankie stops at certain places which I have numbered. Of course, he stops at other places too but these are consistent stops.

1. The first stop is at the side of a house where many flowers are growing. Frankie follows the advice that says you have to stop and smell the flowers. Sometimes you even have to lay down next to them.

2. Next is the house where Boots lives. Boots is a black cat who sometimes goes outside but mostly we see him looking out the window. Frankie ignores him but Rose and I like to talk to him as we go by. Sometimes the window is open, like it was this morning. Unfortunately, I don’t have a photo of Boots.

3. The next house has many plants in pots along the driveway. Frankie likes to give them a good sniff along with a few face rubs.

4. We then travel to a good place to lie down. Maybe when the leaves are gone, we will skip that stop.

5. Next is that nice patch of un-mowed patch of grass I wrote about recently.

6. We then come to a telephone pole Frankie likes to rub his face on. I don’t know if it’s the pole or the safety marker he likes but there are two more poles on the street that he ignores and one of them has the same marker.

7. Finally, we come to an area with stones and rocks which looks uncomfortable to me but not to Frankie.

What do you think of our morning routine?